Current Problems of Social Culture and Ethnology in Slovakia
Current Problems of Social Culture and Ethnology in Slovakia
Author(s): Zita ŠkovierováSubject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Rural and urban sociology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: ownership relationships; re-privatization; voluntary activities; associations in rural communities;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on selected problems of social relations in rural communities in Slovakia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries which became the study subject of ethnology. The political changeover in 1989 in the former Czechoslovakia was an important stimulus for change. The first topic of social studies is the elimination of former socialist ownership and the reestablishment of private ownership of agricultural and forest land. The second topic is voluntary activity and changes to the structure of communities and associations in the rural community. There are also studies of newly established non governmental organizations which promote local culture and support developing tourism.
Journal: Studia ethnologica Croatica
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 219-231
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English